Well, 2014 and the new insurance changes have brought about the kind of changes I anticipated. Our family was not allowed to keep our existing insurance, because due to insurance rule changes my husband’s employer decided to go the cheaper path. Now we have insurance that will not cover my daughter’s formula even though she is g-tube fed and her life depends on it. It is not supplemental nutrition, it is her nutrition, but that doesn’t matter to Cigna. Our previous insurance covered all of her formula as long as it was her only form of nutrition, which it is. Not our new insurance. Apparently, they don’t care if she gets fed. To add insult to injury, we are paying twice as much for this insurance, which covers less and requires us to pay a percentage on everything they do cover (what that may be remains to be seen). We do have Medicaid as a secondary, but due to my husband’s income we have to pay a premium for the upper level of that, so that’s costing us more as well. Right now we are waiting to see if Medicaid is going to cover her formula. I am holding my breath, because her formula is nearly half of our entire income, and there is no way we can afford it out-of-pocket. What are we supposed to do? As it is, like a lot of families, we barely make it week to week, and now with all these extra charges I am really afraid for the first time in my life of how my family is going to survive. These insurance changes that were supposed to be a blessing to everyone are really screwing us over, so thanks a lot. Affordable healthcare? I wish I had the energy to laugh out loud at that one, but it’s really not funny.